netdev - Re: [PATCH] af_unix: Rename UNIX-DGRAM to UNIX to maintain backwards compatability

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Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:20:06 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiang.wang@...edance.com,
        andrii@...nel.org, cong.wang@...edance.com, jakub@...udflare.com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, digetx@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_unix: Rename UNIX-DGRAM to UNIX to maintain backwards
 compatability

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Fri,  8 Oct 2021 14:59:45 -0700 you wrote:
> Then name of this protocol changed in commit 94531cfcbe79 ("af_unix: Add
> unix_stream_proto for sockmap") because that commit added stream support
> to the af_unix protocol. Renaming the existing protocol makes a ChromeOS
> protocol test[1] fail now that the name has changed in
> /proc/net/protocols from "UNIX" to "UNIX-DGRAM".
> 
> Let's put the name back to how it was while keeping the stream protocol
> as "UNIX-STREAM" so that the procfs interface doesn't change. This fixes
> the test and maintains backwards compatibility in proc.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - af_unix: Rename UNIX-DGRAM to UNIX to maintain backwards compatability
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/0edf0824e0dc

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